To: The
Fraternal Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations, democratic, progressive, labour organizations, and
freedom
loving people
Worker-activist Afshin Osanlou fell victim to the
criminal regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Condemn the regime of Iran for this hideous crime!
Dear
Comrades,
The
regime of the Islamic Republic committed another crime. Afshin
Osanlou, trade unionist and political prisoner in the
notorious Rajaei Shahr
prison fell victim to the regime of Iran in June 2013.
The capitalist regime of the Islamic Republic announced his death on June 22,
2013, claiming it was due to heart attack. The family members of Afshin and his prison-mates have said that Afshin had no history of heart problem and the nurses at
the hospital have announced that he had died long before the security forced of
the Islamic Republic brought him to the hospital. What is clear is that Afshin has lost his life in bloody claws of the Islamic
Republic. The regime of Iran is directly responsible for the death of Afshin Osanlou.
Adshin Osanlou, 42-year
old, fired bus driver of Tehran Vahed Bus Transit
Company, inter-city bus driver, truck driver, and a member of the founding
committee of the Truck Drivers Syndicate was arrested in 2009 by the
security-intelligence forces of the Islamic Republic in Tehran because of his
trade union activities , and was taken to Evin prison. In the prison, Afshin
goes under severe physical and mental torture and was falsely charged with
conspiracy and action against “national security”. The regime of Iran sentenced
him to 5 years prison term. Afshin was transferred to
Rajaei Shahr prison after 3
years and was finishing his term.
Dear
Comrades,
Tens
of worker-activists are arrested, tortured, and imprisoned in the dungeons of
the regime of the Islamic Republic. Their guilt is to attempt the formation of
independent worker-organizations, to defend the workers’ rights, to fight for
better wages and job security and collective bargaining and health insurance
and … Their guilt is to stand to the capitalist regime of the Islamic Republic
and not to bend to the pressures and threats of a regime that its authorities’
involvement in multi-milliard dollars embezzlements are known by the people on
the streets.
But
the regime’s response to the just demands of the workers and their
representatives is detention, imprisonment, torture, and charges with
conspiracy and action against the “national security”. Most recently, several
activists and political prisoners have lost their live under barbaric and
medieval torture. Sattar Beheshti,
a worker and webloger, was killed under torture less
than two weeks after his arrest. Alireza Karami lost his life in the death claws of the Islamic
Republic. Beside mistreatment, torture, and physical and mental pressures, the
regime of the Islamic Republic has restricted the access to medical treatment for
the political prisoner. By “lack of medical attention”, the regime wants to
impose on activists “normal” death due to health problems and organ failure.
The regime
of the Islamic Republic takes the families of the political prisoners
hostage and puts them under pressure and threats with the hope of breaking the
resistance of the activists. Taking revenge on the families of the prisoners
has been a sick policy of the Islamic Republic. The family of the fallen
comrade Afshin Osanlou has
been under threat for a long time. Mansour Osanlou, the brother of Afshin Osanlou, is also a worker activist. Mansour
was a prominent and founding member of the Vahed Bus
Transit Company Syndicate. Due to his shining struggles, he was imprisoned,
brutally tortured, and sentenced to 5 years prison term. After finishing his
sentence, Mansour had to leave Iran because the
Islamic regime has threatened his life.
The mother of Afshin Osanlou
is also under threat and pressure by the regime on Iran. The worker-activists
are faced not only with torture and imprisonment, but also with pain and
suffering inflicted on their families by the Islamic government.
Dear
Comrades,
The
capitalist regime of the Islamic Republic is fearful of the formation of independent
worker-organizations. The Islamic regime sees end of its parasitic life nearing
when the working class and the people are united, and is trying to suffocate
any attempt to build independent and democratic workers' organizations, and
detained and charges the worker-activists with conspiracy against “national
security”. But the struggle for the
formation of trade unions has a long history in Iran, and the arrests and
imprisonment of the activists by the regimes of the Shah and the Islamic
Republic has been unable to stop this struggle. By the intensification of their
struggle against the Islamic Republic, workers will impose their demands on the
regime.
The
Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan)
takes the regime of the Islamic Republic directly responsible for the death of Afshin Osanlou. We strongly
condemn the arrest, mistreatment, pressure, threat, torture, imprisonment, and
execution of the worker-activists. We demand the immediate and unconditional
release of all political prisoners. We call on fraternal Parties and
Organizations, democratic and progressive forces, labour
activists, and freedom loving individuals to condemn the capitalist regime of
the Islamic Republic for the death of Afshin Osanlou and other crimes. We ask the comrades to express
solidarity with the struggles of the Iranian worker-activists and to demand the
immediate and unconditional release of all imprisoned worker-activists and all
political prisoners.
Shame and Disgust to the Regime of
the Islamic Republic of Iran !
Release all
worker-activists immediately and unconditionally!
Long live the struggles
of the Iranian workers and Toilers !
Long Live Socialism !
The Party of Labour
of
July 13, 2013